While they will be new to Vancouver, the faces on Team Canada at this week’s Davis Cup Qualifiers First Round tie will mostly be familiar to Canadian fans who watch tennis year-round. Four of the five members of the squad were nominated in both of Canada’s Davis Cup ties in 2025.
It has been over a decade since Team Canada played a Davis Cup tie in Vancouver, so it will be the first chance for all five members of this young team (average age: 23 years, seven months) to dazzle on the West Coast. And for one member of the squad, it will be his first time suiting up in the red and white at the professional level.
Let’s meet the members of Team Canada for the 2026 Davis Cup Qualifiers First Round against Brazil in Vancouver.
Gabriel Diallo
- Rank: 39
- Davis Cup Appearance: 10th
- Davis Cup Record: 6-6
For the third tie in a row, the 24-year-old Montrealer will be called upon to lead Team Canada. Diallo was the Canadian No. 1 in both of the nation’s ties last year, posting a 2-1 record, splitting his matches in the Qualifiers First Round in Montreal before dropping a mere three games in his lone appearance during the World Group I tie. He is 6-5 overall in singles in his Davis Cup career, with all six of those victories coming in the No. 1 spot.
Diallo is off to a slow start in 2026, going 1-3 in January, including a first-round loss to Alexander Zverev at the Australian Open. 2025 was Diallo’s first full season on tour and saw him break into the Top 50, climbing as high as No. 33, and claim his first tour-level title on grass at the Libema Open.
Liam Draxl
- Rank: 146
- Davis Cup Appearance: 4th
- Davis Cup Record: 3-0
Draxl has begun to emerge as a reliable dual threat for Team Canada over the last year. The Newmarket, ON-native played his first Davis Cup matches in 2026, winning all three. In Montreal alongside Vasek Pospisil, who was competing in his final Davis Cup match, the former Kentucky Wildcat kept Canada alive in their Qualifiers tie with Hungary with a clutch doubles win. Then in the World Group I tie in September, Draxl won both his matches, one in singles and the tie-clinching doubles victory with Cleeve Harper, to get Canada back to this stage in 2026.
On tour, the 24-year-old is starting to see steady improvements. He made his ATP Tour debut last summer at the National Bank Open in Toronto, losing a three-set heartbreaker against former champion Pablo Carreno Busta, and is arriving in Vancouver fresh off of qualifying for his first Grand Slam main draw at the Australian Open.
In 2025, Draxl was a force on the ATP Challenger Tour, reaching a tour-leading seven singles finals while adding a pair of doubles titles with Harper.
Alexis Galarneau
- Rank: 232
- Davis Cup Appearance: 11th
- Davis Cup Record: 5-7
Team Canada’s mainstay is gearing up for his 11th consecutive Davis Cup tie, the longest active streak of any Canadian. He has not missed an opportunity to suit up for his country since making his debut for Canada in the 2022 qualifying round.
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While he had a tough go of it against Hungary last year, Galarneau has had some brilliant moments in Davis Cup. One of the highlights of his entire professional career was his performance during the 2023 Finals Group Stage in Bologna, where he went 4-1 across three ties, including big singles wins over Lorenzo Sonego and Alejandro Tabilo.
While he did not reach a final in 2025, falling in the semis of five ATP Challenger events, Galarneau did secure his first ATP Tour match win with an impressive victory over future Masters 1000 finalist Arthur Rinderknech at the National Bank Open in Toronto.
Nicolas Arseneault
- Rank: 495
- Davis Cup Appearance: First
The newest member of Team Canada is the 19-year-old from Richmond Hill. Arseneault is following in the footsteps of his older sister, Ariana, who earned her first nomination to Canada’s Billie Jean King Cup team last April.
A former world No. 42 in juniors, Arseneault started to focus on the professional circuits in 2025. In June of last year, he reached his first professional final in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, at an ITF M25 event. Fans in Toronto got a good look at the youngster during the National Bank Open, where he qualified for his first ATP Tour main draw and then won his first tour-level match in straight sets over Valentin Royer. His impressive run came to an end in round two, even though he managed to push defending champion Alexei Popyrin hard for two sets.
While this is Arseneault’s first time suiting up for Canada at the professional level, he has represented his country before. As a junior, Arseneault was a part of Team Canada at the 2023 Davis Cup Juniors. Across qualifying and the Finals, Arseneault posted an overall record of 8-5, 6-3 in singles and 2-2 in doubles, helping Canada to a seventh-place finish.
Cleeve Harper
- Rank: 97 (doubles)
- Davis Cup Appearance: 3rd
- Davis Cup Record: 2-0
Canada’s No.1-ranked doubles player is into his second season as a member of the Davis Cup team, having gotten his first nomination a year ago for the Qualifiers First Round tie in Montreal against Hungary. He had to wait until September to make his on-court debut, though. Harper was brilliant in his first matches for Canada, clinching the World Group I tie in doubles with Draxl before stepping in and scoring his first singles victory in the dead rubber to complete the sweep.
A former NCAA national doubles champion, Harper is the team’s doubles specialist. The 25-year-old was Tennis Canada’s doubles player of the year in 2025. He has seven ATP Challenger Tour doubles titles to his name, including one already in 2026. In his second event of the season, Harper lifted the trophy at the Oeiras 1 Challenger in Portugal.
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